Notes on Contributors

JOHN BAZALGETTE has been involved with group relations conferences as a member and staff member since the mid 1960s. He came to the field from teaching in one of the first English comprehensive schools. He has worked at The Grubb Institute since its foundation and has undertaken consultancy and research using the systemic and psychodynamic frames of reference. Much of his work has been concerned with the institutional arrangements that support young people in their transition to the adult world. He developed applications of group relations methods specifically to education, one of which is embodied in the short course ‘Leading Learning in Organisations’ and its variations, which have been run in the UK and in the Netherlands for over eleven years.

The late BRUCE REED describes his own biography in the text of the paper.

PHILIP BOXER is an independent consultant working as a strategy analyst with organizations in the voluntary, public and private sectors. He is a Council Member of the Tavistock Institute and Associate Member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, his research interests focusing on the nature of leadership ‘at the edge’, asymmetric demand and organizational agility.

LESLIE BOYDELL Leslie Boydell is Associate Director, Institute of Public Health in Ireland. Her interests include multi-sectoral partnerships for health and leadership development. She is currently studying for a PhD in the psychodynamics of partnerships at the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, UWE, Bristol.

JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS, PhD, is Distinguished Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his biographies on Franklin Roosevelt. Author of the seminal book, Leadership in 1978, and senior editor of the Encyclopedia of Leadership he is a pioneer in the field of leadership studies. A political scientist and past president of the American Political Science Association and the International Society of Political